Quote Originally Posted by irving2008 View Post
This made me smile Jazz... I have nearly 7 metres of the stuff, in two 3.5m lengths,
Yes I've seen this type on the newer models Irving but it's completely different to the stuff I had given, it was 3.5mtr thou and yes I cut it In half to get into car that's why my machines 1500mm wide. . Lol . .. . I actually didn't have a use for it when given just knew it was too good to go in scrap bin.!!
My machine came about by watching A U-tube vid and thinking "I can do that.!!" then looking at this piece of profile and pile of spare box section and hey presto 6hrs later the frame was roughed together.!!

The materials for whole main frame including gantry of my machine (1500mm,sq) cost £77 and that includes Ali for sides and profile on gantry, Z axis Ali cost £25. The complete thing including Z axis but excluding Ali bed cost less than £102. The profiled linear rails cost another £175 second hand of ebay. The ballscrews from chai/ebay and for roughly £500-600 I'd got a working machine that after plenty of tweaking cut's Ali fine and doesn't even know it's cutting wood.